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Formats a citation to a website using the provided information such as URL and title. Used only for sources that are not correctly described by the specific citation templates for books, journals, news sources, etc.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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URL | url URL | The URL of the online location where the text of the publication can be found | String | required |
Source title | title | The title of the source page on the website; will display with quotation marks added | String | required |
Last name | last last1 author author1 authors | The surname of the author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Line | suggested |
First name | first first1 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Line | suggested |
Author link | authorlink authorlink1 author-link author1-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Page name | optional |
Last name 2 | last2 author2 | The surname of the second author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink2'. | Line | optional |
First name 2 | first2 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 2 | authorlink2 author2-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second author. | Page name | optional |
Source date | date | Full date when the source was published; if unknown, use accessdate instead; do not wikilink | String | suggested |
Year of publication | year | Year of the source being referenced; use 'date' instead, if month and day are also known | String | optional |
Editor last name | editor-last editor1-last editor editors | The surname of the editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors. | Line | optional |
Editor first name | editor-first editor1-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-first' | Line | optional |
Editor link | editor-link editor1-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 2 | editor2-last editor2 | The surname of the second editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor2-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 2 | editor2-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 2 | editor2-link editor2link editorlink2 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second editor. | Page name | optional |
Website title | website work | Title of the website; may be wikilinked; will display in italics | String | suggested |
Series identifier | series | Series identifier when the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal | String | optional |
Publisher | publisher | Name of the publisher; may be wikilinked | String | suggested |
Location of publication | location | Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place' | String | optional |
Page | page | Page in the source that supports the content; displays after 'p.' | String | optional |
Pages | pages | Pages in the source that support the content (not an indication of the number of pages in the source; displays after 'pp.' | String | optional |
At | at | May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient | String | optional |
Language | language | The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates | String | optional |
Script title | script-title | For titles in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon. For Japanese use: |script-title=ja:... | String | optional |
Translated title | trans-title | An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended | String | optional |
Type | type | Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case | String | optional |
Format | format | Format of the work referred to by 'url'; examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML | String | optional |
Others | others | Used to record other (non-author) contributions to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith' | String | optional |
Month of publication | month | Name of the month of publication; do not wikilink; use 'date' instead, if day of month is also known | String | optional |
Original year | orig-year origyear | Original year of publication; provide specifics | String | optional |
Place of publication | publication-place | Publication place shows after title; if 'place' or 'location' are also given, they are displayed before the title prefixed with 'written at' | String | optional |
Publication date | publication-date | Date of publication when different from the date the work was written; do not wikilink | String | optional |
No pp | nopp | Set to 'y' to suppress the 'p.' or 'pp.' display with 'page' or 'pages' when inappropriate (such as 'Front cover') | String | optional |
arXiv identifier | arxiv | An identifier for arXive electronic preprints of scientific papers | String | optional |
AZIN | asin | Amazon Standard Identification Number; 10 characters | String | optional |
AZIN TLD | asin-tld | ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US | String | optional |
Bibcode | bibcode | Bibliographic Reference Code (REFCODE); 19 characters | String | optional |
DOI | doi | Digital Object Identifier; begins with '10.' | String | optional |
DOI broken date | doi-broken-date | The date that the DOI was determined to be broken | String | optional |
ISBN | isbn | International Standard Book Number; use the 13-digit ISBN where possible | String | optional |
ISSN | issn | International Standard Serial Number; 8 characters; may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen | String | optional |
jfm code | jfm | Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik classification code | String | optional |
JSTOR | jstor | JSTOR identifier | String | optional |
LCCN | lccn | Library of Congress Control Number | String | optional |
MR | mr | Mathematical Reviews identifier | String | optional |
OCLC | oclc | Online Computer Library Center number | String | optional |
OL | ol | Open Library identifier | String | optional |
OSTI | osti | Office of Scientific and Technical Information identifier | String | optional |
PMC | pmc | PubMed Center article number | String | optional |
PMID | pmid | PubMed Unique Identifier | String | optional |
RFC | rfc | Request for Comments number | String | optional |
SSRN | ssrn | Social Science Research Network | String | optional |
Zbl | zbl | Zentralblatt MATH journal identifier | String | optional |
id | id | A unique identifier used where none of the specialized ones are applicable | String | optional |
Archive URL | archiveurl archive-url | The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archivedate' | String | optional |
Archive date | archivedate archive-date | Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink | String | optional |
Dead URL | dead-url | If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live | String | optional |
URL access date | accessdate | The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink | String | suggested |
Quote | quote | Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; needs to include terminating punctuation | String | optional |
Ref | ref | An anchor identifier; can be made the target of wikilinks to full references; special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv template | String | optional |
Postscript | postscript | The closing punctuation for the citation; ignored if 'quote' is defined
| String | optional |
Subscription required | subscription | When set to yes, displays '(subscription required)' to indicate an online source that requires subscription | String | optional |
Registration required | registration | When set to yes, displays '(registration required)' to indicate an online source that requires registration | String | optional |
Separator | separator | The punctuation used to separate lists of authors, editors, etc.; a space must be encoded as   do not use an asterisk, colon, or hash mark
| String | optional |
Lay URL | layurl | URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; alias of 'laysummary' | String | optional |
Lay source | laysource | Name of the source of the laysummary; displays in italics, preceded by an en dash | String | optional |
Lay date | laydate | Date of the summary; displays in parentheses | String | optional |
Author mask | author-mask | Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text; set to a numeric value 'n' to set the dash 'n' em spaces wide; set to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, 'with' instead | String | optional |
Last name 3 | last3 author3 | The surname of the third author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink3'. | Line | optional |
First name 3 | first3 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 3 | authorlink3 author3-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 4 | last4 author4 | The surname of the fourth author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink4'. | Line | optional |
First name 4 | first4 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 4 | authorlink4 author4-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fourth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 5 | last5 author5 | The surname of the fifth author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink5'. | Line | optional |
First name 5 | first5 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 5 | authorlink5 author5-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 6 | last6 author6 | The surname of the sixth author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink6'. | Line | optional |
First name 6 | first6 author6-link | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 6 | authorlink6 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 7 | last7 author7 | The surname of the seventh author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink7'. | Line | optional |
First name 7 | first7 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 7 | authorlink7 author7-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 8 | last8 author8 | The surname of the eighth author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink8'. | Line | optional |
First name 8 | first8 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 8 | authorlink8 author8-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 9 | last9 author9 | The surname of the ninth author; do not wikilink, use 'authorlink9'. If nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and 'et al.' will show in place of the last author. | Line | optional |
First name 9 | first9 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth author; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 9 | authorlink9 author9-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth author. | Page name | optional |
Author name separator | author-name-separator | Changes the separator between last and first names; defaults to a comma and space; a space must be encoded as   do not use an asterisk, colon, or hash mark
| String | optional |
Author separator | author-separator | Changes the separator between authors; defaults to a semicolon and space; a space must be encoded as   do not use an asterisk, colon, or hash mark
| String | optional |
Display authors | display-authors displayauthors | Number of authors to display before 'et al.' is used; default is to do so after 8 of 9 are listed.
| Number | optional |
Last author ampersand | lastauthoramp | When set to any value, changes the separator between the last two names of the author list to 'space ampersand space' | String | optional |
Editor last name 3 | editor3-last editor3 | The surname of the third editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor3-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 3 | editor3-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 3 | editor3-link editor3link editorlink3 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 4 | editor4-last editor4 | The surname of the fourth editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor4-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 4 | editor4-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 4 | editor4-link editor4link editorlink4 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fourth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 5 | editor5-last editor5 | The surname of the fifth editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor5-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 5 | editor5-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 5 | editor5-link editor5link editorlink5 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fifth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 6 | editor6-last editor6 | The surname of the sixth editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor6-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 6 | editor6-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 6 | editor6-link editor6link editorlink6 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 7 | editor7-last editor7 | The surname of the seventh editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor7-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 7 | editor7-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 7 | editor7-link editor7link editorlink7 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 8 | editor8-last editor8 | The surname of the eigth editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor8-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 8 | editor8-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eigth editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 8 | editor8-link editor8link editorlink8 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 9 | editor9-last editor9 | The surname of the ninth editor; do not wikilink, use 'editor9-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 9 | editor9-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth editor; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 9 | editor9-link editor9link editorlink9 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth editor. | Page name | optional |
Edition | edition | Specify the edition or revision of the source, when applicable. For example: '2nd' or '5.1'. What you supply here is suffixed by ' ed.' | String | optional |